Tuesday, November 18, 2008

MISSING PIECES





Forrest Gump's mom says that "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get." But I say life is like a jigsaw puzzle and you never know what pieces will fit with each other. Or what piece may be missing all together.

A couple of month's ago I put together this turtle puzzle. It was the hardest puzzle to put together because the border pieces were so hard to find. It took me weeks to build. Pieces would fit together that didn't belong together so I would have to break them apart and find the right pieces.

Puzzles are fun to work on, but they can be frustrating too, especially when you spend days looking for a certain piece and then finally decide it must be missing and you have to move on to a different part of the puzzle.

And that's how it went with this puzzle. I spent days looking for one piece only to find out when I was finished that it was missing.

After a couple of month's though, when my dad was moving furniture around in the living room, we found the missing puzzle piece. Just like life, sometimes you go through life for months or years feeling like something is missing to one day, out of the blue, find that missing piece and your life seems complete.

PHOTOS:
The slow progress of putting this puzzle together.

Me with the finished puzzle minus the missing piece (seen in the next photo).
The puzzle mounted on my bedroom wall with the missing piece in place.

p.s. my dad helped me write this.

2 comments:

Debbie said...

Something about "that missing piece" really puts things in a different perspective. I like that it is missing. It has character. Gives it more meaning. When something is so hard to complete and you finally finish it, only to show the scars of it's journey , I think you give it heart and soul. Fantastic Job!

Jay & Amy said...

Hi Rebecca,
I like your turtle puzzle! It's really cute. I haven't done a puzzle for a long time. Hope you're doing well! Love you!
Amy